An endless amount of thanks goes out to all the forum members who posted information about their approaches.

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It appears that from time to time the streaming capabilities between the pc running orb and the bb handheld don't connect on the first try or responds with a red error message. To fix this close all apps, power down, remove the battery (I did for 20 seconds) power the bb handheld back up and you are on your way. It reconnects on the first try after that no problems. This may be a error as a result of the QuickPull program I am running in the background. Further testing is in order.
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When I get a text the stream stops and have to redo stream. Any suggestions.

I would start with checking the setting of the browser and media player. I need to look back but i changed something that enabled either continous playbay or told the application to force the stream and recieve but take no action.

I can stream, get texts, surf the web and use messenger with no problem.
Although if i visit a website with high graphical content the performance takes a hit.

does anybody know if this is a free app? I used to use "musicdock" on my palm treo, it took you to the logon screen on xmradioonline. you entered your standard username and password and off you go.

Now it looks like xmradio has an app for bb that they want to charge you 7.99/mo for but it doesn't say whether that service would be included if you have an online account.

I'm also not thrilled to hear you have to have a computer on somewhere that has usirius running?? not sure if I heard that one right.

Sitting in an airport and being able to go to a website and listen to xm was great. does anybody have any experience with "orb" and "usirius"?? Why 2 apps? is it free? why do you need another computer running this program simultaneously??